Trade Empire Tutorial - Part 3/3: - Station Optimization - X4: Foundations

After 2 weeks of constant toiling, here is the final part of my Trading and Building tutorial for X4: Foundations. I also got TIMESTAMPS for you:
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0:00 - Welcome to my Swamp
0:30 - 3rd stage summary
1:00 - Workforce explained
3:00 - MANUFACTURING AND CALCULATIONS
3:54 - Problem/Solving...
4:31 - ...With workforce
5:48 - Thrice the product
7:29 - Production bottleneck
8:25 - Surplus
8:49 - Expansions done after calculations
9:12 - Set parameters
10:48 - Experiment
11:03 - SUBORDINATES
11:55 - Insubordinate
12:17 - What do managers do?
12:37 - Station Miners
13:17 - Gas Harvesters and more problems
14:28 - Repeating myself (part 1)
14:49 - Repeating myself (part 2)
15:17 - Repeating myself (part 3) - Workarounds
16:00 - Station Optimized.
16:55 - A self-sufficient operation
20:37 - Stations to complex
21:20 - Random tips and tricks (exploration and combat)
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[makroshlyta]

Probably one of the best trade tutorials! Miners today works better, but not perfect yet.

[wileywilson]

Fantastic work. Thanks man. Much appreciated!

[natep]

Excellent job on these tutorials! Very helpful. Would definitely be interested in a let's play series. Subbed.

[FenrisDark]

No surprise that Spaceweed needs 420 workers. :D

[GodprefersDiesels]

You really did a very good job on these videos.

[Halcylion]

And this is the final part, folks! Later tonight, I will be hosting an X4 Foundations Livestream where I will answer any questions you might still have about the game that I might've omitted in all of my tutorials. The stream will start at 6 PM GMT. For clarification, right now it's 12:34 GMT.
If you miss this livestream, worry not, I will be hosting 2 more on Friday and Saturday, at the exact hour, 6 PM GMT, so you can catch me there.

[johnterpack]

It seems the trend is to build mega stations with everything under one roof. But I tend to like individual stations for each task. At the very least, I prefer to keep things simple. Having storage for all the raw materials, all the intermediate parts, and finished products along with the numerous modules and crew space just seems like a waste to me. So I really appreciate the approach you took in this series. It will be far easier to individually optimize several small stations than trying to optimize an all-in-one behemoth.

[wileywilson]

Have you worked out how remove those greyed out options on your station traders so they only sell the products you want (and not buy stuff you don't)?
My solution is not to allocate the traders to the station, but to use normal autotrade, select the ware I want to sell and use the blacklist feature of patch 2.5.

[kensavage]

Amazing video, once again!

Did you ever get a solution on the greying out of the supply ships?

[Reohz]

Now you say they'll just grab the closest material, but I caught a miner last night travelling way outside the known sector while there's tens of millions of tons of ore right on the station's doorstep. This game has some weird glitches.

[sosickgameplay]

This is what i really needed, do you have any fleet configuration for combat? im barely new to this.

[mariomcdonald]

How do you assign a ship as subordinate?

[schabowyBar]

Halcylion
Hi. Whats your computer specs ?